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By Sam Snead It isn’t hard to imagine Ted Williams as a golfer. Almost everything about him indicates he could have been the first left-handed golfer to really hit it big on the circuit.
Sam Snead, whose picture-perfect golf swing carried him to a record 81 PGA Tour victories including three Masters -- and earned him a reputation as one of the most gifted athletes to play the game ...
Sam Snead, the Virginia hillbilly with the sweetest of swings, winner of more PGA tournaments than any player in the history of the tour, but never champion of the U.S. Open, died May 23 in Hot ...
Sam Snead gambled with the "graveyard of the Masters," the tortuous thirteenth hole, and beat Ben Hogan by a stroke in an 18-hole playoff for the Masters golf title Monday.
Sam Snead used his graceful swing to win seven Grand Slam tournaments. Snead's fluid but powerful swing seemed effortless, a classic swing that kept him on course well into his 60s.
Instructor Jim McLean, who worked with Snead on the video “Sam Snead: Swing for a Lifetime,” once asked NBA legend Jerry West to name the greatest athlete he had ever seen or played with. “I thought ...
Snead won a record 82 PGA Tour titles, seven of them major championships. Of course, he was tortured over never having won the U.S. Open. “Hogan was convinced Sam had the finest swing of anyone who ...